-
Lesson Plan |
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about density. The probe is designed to find out whether students have commonly held ideas about mass, volume, shape, and other properties that interfere…
-
What Do You Know About Volcanoes and Earthquakes?
Lesson Plan |
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about plate tectonic features and events. The probe is designed to uncover commonly held misconceptions about volcanoes and earthquakes.
-
From the Field: Events and Opportunities, August 10, 2021
Reports Article |
-
Professional Development in Science Education
Position Statement |
-
Freebies and Opportunities for Science and STEM Teachers, November 1, 2022
Reports Article |
-
Using Insect Biodiversity to Build Basic Skills
Journal Article |
-
Journal Article |
Hardware, software, and websites for use in the classroom.
-
The historically important equations of Newton, Ohm, and Planck
Journal Article |
Building an understanding of physical principles
-
Using technology to sensitively and sensibly meet students' needs in the science classroom
Journal Article |
Strategies for increasing student engagement
-
Journal Article |
Project-based learning (PBL) instructional methods attempt to make connections between students and their ability to solve real problems. We framed our qualitative study within sociocultural theory and used the…
-
Rosie Revere’s Orangutan Dilemma
Journal Article |
-
Journal Article |
The manufacture of metal alloys is ubiquitous, yet infrequently discussed in high school coursework as concepts related to them are often too complex or abstract for beginning science students. However, earlier…
-
Journal Article |
This article describes how clickers (student response systems) may be used to assess and support the development of productive process skills and discourse patterns within student teams during class periods. Clicker…
-
Understanding Chemical and Physical Changes
Journal Article |